CONTROL
GROUP

CURATED BY
Chris Fallon and Jasmin Lim
Partisan Gallery

JANUARY 28 -
MARCH 5, 2011

 

 

• EXHIBIT

 

Opening reception: Friday, January 28, from 6 to 8 pm

Control Group is an investigation into the individual artistic process and the risks taken when directed to work outside one's chosen medium(s). With the metaphor of the fish out of water in place, each artist will communicate their ideas and aesthetics through unfamiliar means, allowing new variables to emerge.

We intend to challenge the comfort zones artists sometimes inhabit by asking them to relinquish a degree of control over their creativity, while perhaps exercising it more completely than usual, invigorating the dialogue between artist and viewer. Control Group is an invitation to make mistakes. While this may seem counterintuitive, we see the threshold between success and failure as a space for progress.

Partisan Gallery, NOMA Gallery, and fourteen artists of different disciplines will come together for this project, co-curated by Chris Fallon and Jasmin Lim.

Artists:

Chris Fitzpatrick
Colter Jacobsen
David Wilson
Emily Prince
Jacqueline Gordon
Jennifer Locke
Joshua Churchill
Keegan McHargue
Leslie Shows
Lindsey White
Margaret Tedesco
Meara O'Reilly
Nate Boyce
Paul Schiek
Sean McFarland
Paul Wackers